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Abigail (Abby) Aldrich Rockefeller The August 16, 1918 Evening World notes Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Driving First Spike Into the Keel of the U. S. Trawler Fish Hawk. Though that photo/article was probably at the boat's launching, not keel laying. The June 15 issue of Shipping noted that Fish Hawk was nearly all planked out and that launching would likely be in a few weeks. The July issue of The Rudder notes that Fish Hawk is the second of six planned trawlers for the East Coast Fisheries Company built in Maine by the Portland Shipbuilding Company and that Fish Hawk is a sistership to the first, the Kingfisher. The Rudder article includes some good plan and profile drawings of the boats. In the September, 1919 issue of The American Marine Engineerwe learn that while Kingfisher was sunk by a U-Boat during the war, Fish Hawk and her sisterships were still bringing fish into New York and the 6th in the series was about to begin construction.

Some photos of the Fish Hawk from 1919: mainehistory.pastperfect-online.com/32314cgi/mweb.exe?req... Fish Hawk as a derelict vessel in Noank, CT: connecticuthistoryillustrated.org/islandora/search/%22fis...

Looks like she is enjoying herself.

It looks like this ship was actually the Albatross. This photo appears in a Rockefeller Foundation publication with the caption: "Abby Aldrich Rockefeller holds the hammer that she used to drive a bolt during construction of the “Albatross” in Portland, Maine, in mid August 1918." Photograph by Underwood & Underwood, New York City www.rockarch.org/publications/newsletter/nl2000.pdf at p. 11.

Albatross built at same shipyard as Fish Hawk: Portland SB, South Portland ME, O.N. 217411 Albatross East Coast Fisheries Co Trawler GT 384 Delivery1918 Wrecked Diamond Shoals 1940 www.shipbuildinghistory.com/history/shipyards/719thcentur... Wreck: wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?236463 about the loss cause lost: ran aground (wrecked) date lost: 21/02/1940

Here is one story from NYTimes, (involving a subpoena from Congress) query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9400EEDA1E3AE6... Here is another story involving Rockefeller and guards: BURNS SQUAD GUARDS ROCKEFELLER ESTATE; John D., Jr., Installs Strong Force of Detectives to Protect Italian Workmen. August 28, 1912, Wednesday Page 1, 583 words John D. Rockefeller, Jr., took Detective William J. Burns to Pocantico Hills yesterday to investigate the disorder among the Italian population, which has caused several hold-ups and shootings on the Rockefeller estate and in its immediate vicinity. Detective Burns has a squad of men on guard at the estate. query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=940CE...

The same view today. Thanks for the article with the story and the address, Harry Angstrom!

That's cool you added the modern photo, boeke! thanks!

Huh, I don't think the first article Angstrom links to has anything to do with the picture. The caption suggests the detectives are guarding Rockefeller's home, not waiting for him to arrive so they can force him to testify, as the NYT article describes. That is an interesting article given our current economic problems.

Bouck White (1874-1951), Congregational minister, arrested for disorderly conduct when he appeared at a church service to preach about the immorality of wealth; his wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouck_White

Bain caption has it right, LOC caption for some reason truncates the admittedly rather unusual first name.

pennylrichardsca & Wystan: Thanks for the further information on Bouck White. An article in the New York Times of May 11, 1914 gives a good retelling of the events leading up to and following the moment captured in this photograph. trialsanderrors: Yet another case where the Bain caption card transcribed by Library staff did not match with the information on the Bain negative itself. We will get them in sync when we update this record. Thanks!

Very interesting and detailed article, thanks. The church, attended by the Rockefellers, was replaced by a newer building in 1930, and was on West 57th Street, near Carnegie Hall. White's action (with 20 of his followers) at the church was in response to the Ludlow Massacre in Colorado, which had taken place on April 20th. A more sympathetic account of White's actions that day (for which he served 6 months in jail) is told here: www.archive.org/stream/fromprisoletters00whitrich/frompri... When supporters petitioned Governor Glynn for his pardon, he wrote the governor to assure him that he was not sorry for his actions: "" Repentant ! " I am, sir, the most unrepentant pris- oner a New York City jail ever sloughed into a cell. Let another Ludlow massacre happen, I would repeat my deed to-morrow. So far from life in prison having wrought in me a penitential work, it has tightened and reenforced in me a remonstrant mood."